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On Monday 25 July 2005 18:27, Simon Robert wrote: > Hi LUGS > > I know zero about networking and zero about broadband. In preparation to > being BB activated on Aug 3 I have bought 3 devolo home plugs, (the > thingies that use your electric circuit as a network) and a Thompson > Speedtouch 530 "Multiuser Gateway", (or router I think?). > > I have setup the ethernet connection with a static ID, 169.254.27.03, > mask 255.255.0.0 and this seems to work in seeing XP. > Ok keep things simple to start with and use a logical IP address, is that address you have chosen even in the private ip range? that you can use safely? I would use 192.168.0.X I suspect your router has already been set to either 192.168.0.1 OR 192.168.0.254 (check your instructions) so i would number your other systems in order. 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3 etc (all with netmask 255.255.255.0) Give each system a static ip address and see if you can PING each other eg "ping 192.168.0.2" this command works on both windows and linux. This proves basic connectivity between all systems. Next i would check your routers setup, probably via a web page? http://192.168.0.1 ?? check instructions! you *could* use dhcp but this may cause issues with samba unless you have netbios/wins and DNS all working properly. The only problem (with static IP's is that you will have to MANUALY specify the default gateway (ie the address of your router) AND the DNS servers (check your broadband information pack) on each system. -- Robin Cornelius --------------------------------------------------- robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cornelius.demon.co.uk http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400 GPG Key ID: 0x729A79A23B7EE764 http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x729A79A23B7EE764
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